A series of experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of early nutrition on subsequent growth performance and protein gain. Compensatory body weight growth after a low quality starter feeding program was dependent ...

An experiment was conducted to provide comparative scientific evidence for the well-being or ill-being of pigs while residing in different environments under intensive housing conditions. Four categories of indices--viz., ...

Three studies were conducted to determine the efficacy of water-cooled roosts in the alleviation of heat stress in chicken hens. In the first study, roost preferences and behavioral roosting for thermoregulation purposes ...

A series of experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of reduced-protein, amino-acid-supplemented diets on pig performance, carcass characteristics, heat production and nitrogen and energy balance. Pigs from weaning ...

Goats are important producers of meat, milk and fiber in many tropical countries, yet little is known about their adaptation to the utilization of the dry, scrubby vegetation found in these areas. This study was designed ...

One goal critical to the use of recombinant DNA technologies with rumen bacteria is the establishment of a stable DNA transfer system. Research to date has shown that Ruminococcus can be classified as a genus resistant to ...

The downhill simplex (DS), Powell's (PO), and Rosenbrock's (RO) algorithm were optimized and applied to estimation of dispersion parameters. The optimization is independent of the log-likelihood function and thus, from the ...

A multidisciplinary approach was used to study the design of feeders for sows. This included: (1) the evaluation of commercially available feeder designs; (2) a survey of sows' head, front torso, and gross body dimensions; ...